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News Hour: Makers of inhalers to treat asthma and chronic lung disease are racing to develop a new generation of smart devices with sensors to monitor if patients are using their puffers properly. Linked wirelessly to...

News Hour: Gambia passed a law banning child marriage on Thursday and introduced heavy jail terms for anyone who breaks the new rules, reports BSS. Under the new law, a man who marries an underage girl...

News Hour: Finland on Friday auctioned off scores of vintage albeit ramshackle Soviet-era cars abandoned by asylum-seekers who used them to cross the country’s desolate Arctic border from Russia. Last year Finland’s 1,340 km-long (833-mile) frontier...

News Hour: IOM Kuwait has launched a study on the effects of social networks on Kuwait’s labour market. The launch also doubled as a consultation for 15 government officials from the country’s Public Authority for Manpower...

News Hour: Dusit International announces Dusit Thani College’s key leadership succession as its College Council Committee recently appointed Dr. Sarote Phornprapha (PhD) President of Dusit Thani College, effective 1 July 2016. His appointment follows the resignation...

News Hour: Horrifying accounts of sexual violence, killings, torture and religious persecution collected by Amnesty International reveal the shocking range of abuses along the smuggling routes to and through Libya. Amnesty International spoke to at least...

News Hour: In 2009 when Gan Quan began working for The Union in China, few people had heard of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). Remarkably, just over six years later,...

News Hour: ICICI Bank announced the launch of the country’s first contactless business credit card in association with Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their employees. Christened ‘Jet Airways...

News Hour: IOM and Puntland’s Ministry for Security and Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) earlier this month (08/06) held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the construction of the ministry’s immigration headquarters in Garowe, Puntland State of...

News Hour: Delegates at the World Health Assembly today agreed to implement 2 new health strategies that are closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. One relates to women’s children’s and adolescents’ health; the other to...